1. They survived Irma, but perished in sweltering temperatures days later.

Three people were discovered dead at a nursing home in Hollywood, Fla., whose air-conditioning had been knocked out. That number grew to eight after other residents were evacuated to hospitals.

“It felt like 110 degrees,” said the daughter of a 96-year-old resident.

The police and state authorities are conducting a criminal investigation, and fanning out to check other nursing homes. Roughly 160 nursing homes in Florida — a state where one in five residents is over 65 — remain without commercial power amid high temperatures.

3. The Trump administration is considering reducing the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. over the next year, to below 50,000. That would be the lowest number since at least 1980. Above, Syrian families at a U.N. refugee office in Beirut.

Separately, when undocumented immigrants finish their sentences, local sheriffs face a problem: Should they keep them locked up pending deportation or honor federal court decisions that the practice is unconstitutional?

Sunayana Dumala’s husband, one of two Indian men shot that day, was here on an H-1B visa, and upon his death, her residency status was terminated. She was scared she wouldn’t be able to come back to the U.S. after his funeral in India. Above, the couple in a family photo.

Her congressman, Kevin Yoder, is helping her get her own visa — and argues that the law should be changed to protect spouses of hate crime victims.

“You would find people having sex in their cars and in the parking lot,” said one former employee at the online lending start-up. “It was a free-for-all.”’

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6. Fires are now raging across the West, from Southern California to Glacier National Park, with experts predicting that 2017 will go down as one of the worst wildfire seasons in decades.

A crew of scientists at Yellowstone National Park has been studying how forests regrow after fires, and their findings will guide forest management and firefighting policy in the years to come. Global warming is expected to contribute to more frequent fires. Above, two forests whose paths diverged after a succession of wildfires.

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7. Russia and Belarus are about to attack Veishnoriya. Luckily, that’s a fictional state.

While Ms. Jolie’s earlier work as a director has garnered tepid reviews, several critics have anointed “First They Killed My Father” her best yet. It’ll be on Netflix as of Friday, when it will also open in a small number of theaters.

In an interview at her $25 million estate in Los Angeles, Ms. Jolie said that making the film affected her view of her family — and intimated that it might have informed her decision to leave Brad Pitt.

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10. Finally, after Senator Ted Cruz’s Twitter account liked a pornographic video, you knew he would be prime fodder for the late-night comics. From James Corden: “When asked to comment on this story, Ted Cruz said, ‘Don’t come in here!’”

On TV tonight, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back for Season 4 of “Broad City,” starring as feminist slackers (above and at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central). And Samantha Bee is back with new episodes of “Full Frontal” (10:30 p.m. on TBS).